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"towelie" |
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28 Oct 2004 04:37:15 PM |
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Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
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| User: "Clayton Insert Pop Culture Pun Here" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
28 Oct 2004 08:23:48 PM |
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"towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ud748F29eiu1U1@uni-berlin.de...
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Already done....no matter who you vote for the machine will write in "George
Bush"!
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
31 Oct 2004 09:44:33 AM |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:37:15 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
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Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
White-out.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Vote for Bush. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
No matter the candidates the superstition industry wins.
'Jesus' is a sock-puppet Christians utilize to add 'authority' to
whatever action they intend on taking. -Stoney
And Duty Imp and Rapscallion
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
28 Oct 2004 05:29:30 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:37:15 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
It takes a *very* subtle touch.
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
28 Oct 2004 06:51:02 PM |
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TV's Apostate wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:37:15 -0500, "towelie"
<bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
It takes a *very* subtle touch.
So the answer is "no"? Maybe that's part of the agenda, to block out
non-approved candidates.
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I'm George W. Bush, and Karl Rove approved this message.
aa #2133
ap #19
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
28 Oct 2004 08:16:45 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:51:02 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
TV's Apostate wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:37:15 -0500, "towelie"
<bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
It takes a *very* subtle touch.
So the answer is "no"? Maybe that's part of the agenda, to block out
non-approved candidates.
I'm sure the answer is variable, according to jurisdiction and technology
in use there. In principle, a system ought to be able to embrace both the
high-techitude of touch screen and the openness to voting for lesser-established
candidates of writing in. I'd put in a 'phone call to the local board of elections
to ask them about this, if I were you. Shorter-term, you could try googling for
write-in voting instructions by state and county (a similar approach showed me
how to petition my elections board for an absentee ballot, complete with a .pdf
of the form, as filled by me.)
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
28 Oct 2004 04:58:24 PM |
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on 28 Oct 2004 in alt.atheism, towelie dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
I imagine the principle is the same as using white-out on a computer screen
to correct errors.
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Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that
intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree?
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple, you're going to be
as smart as God. We can't have that."
[Frank Zappa]
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
31 Oct 2004 06:23:38 AM |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:58:24 -0500, Vic Sagerquist <address@withheld.com> wrote:
on 28 Oct 2004 in alt.atheism, towelie dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
I imagine the principle is the same as using white-out on a computer screen
to correct errors.
You know how sometimes, you hear or see something, and it takes a while to
click?
Well that is what just happened to me. About 15 minutes. <(:-(
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
29 Oct 2004 06:18:30 AM |
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towelie said:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Yes, depending on the system. My local touch screens offer a 'write in'
choice, and bring up an alphabet so you can laboriously touch in a name.
OTOH, they only tally and publish results of votes for 'declared' write in
candidates here. So none of my write in votes ever much mattered.
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Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
31 Oct 2004 09:19:06 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:18:30 -0500, (Pat
Kiewicz) wrote:
towelie said:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Yes, depending on the system. My local touch screens offer a 'write in'
choice, and bring up an alphabet so you can laboriously touch in a name.
OTOH, they only tally and publish results of votes for 'declared' write in
candidates here. So none of my write in votes ever much mattered.
Well, you can only blame yourself. The election workers might have let
"Mike Hunt" , or "I.P. Freely" get by, but when you put in "Saque
O'Sheet" for governor, that was just way out of line.
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zamboni
#2139
A li'l ray o' sunshine to a dim theist mind.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
01 Nov 2004 11:08:01 AM |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:19:06 -0600,
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:18:30 -0500, (Pat
Kiewicz) wrote:
towelie said:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Yes, depending on the system. My local touch screens offer a 'write in'
choice, and bring up an alphabet so you can laboriously touch in a name.
OTOH, they only tally and publish results of votes for 'declared' write in
candidates here. So none of my write in votes ever much mattered.
Well, you can only blame yourself. The election workers might have let
"Mike Hunt" , or "I.P. Freely" get by, but when you put in "Saque
O'Sheet" for governor, that was just way out of line.
Truth hurts and must be stomped out.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Vote for Bush. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
No matter the candidates the superstition industry wins.
'Jesus' is a sock-puppet Christians utilize to add 'authority' to
whatever action they intend on taking. -Stoney
And Duty Imp and Rapscallion
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
01 Nov 2004 12:36:06 PM |
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stoney said:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:19:06 -0600,
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:18:30 -0500, (Pat
Kiewicz) wrote:
towelie said:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Yes, depending on the system. My local touch screens offer a 'write in'
choice, and bring up an alphabet so you can laboriously touch in a name.
OTOH, they only tally and publish results of votes for 'declared' write in
candidates here. So none of my write in votes ever much mattered.
Well, you can only blame yourself. The election workers might have let
"Mike Hunt" , or "I.P. Freely" get by, but when you put in "Saque
O'Sheet" for governor, that was just way out of line.
Truth hurts and must be stomped out.
Mike Easter.
I may write him in this year in one of the 'unopposed' races.
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Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: Touch-screen voting machines and write-in candidates |
01 Nov 2004 01:25:40 PM |
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:36:06 -0600, (Pat Kiewicz) wrote:
stoney said:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:19:06 -0600,
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:18:30 -0500, (Pat
Kiewicz) wrote:
towelie said:
Is there a way to write in candidates on touch-screen machines?
Yes, depending on the system. My local touch screens offer a 'write in'
choice, and bring up an alphabet so you can laboriously touch in a name.
OTOH, they only tally and publish results of votes for 'declared' write in
candidates here. So none of my write in votes ever much mattered.
Well, you can only blame yourself. The election workers might have let
"Mike Hunt" , or "I.P. Freely" get by, but when you put in "Saque
O'Sheet" for governor, that was just way out of line.
Truth hurts and must be stomped out.
Mike Easter.
I may write him in this year in one of the 'unopposed' races.
<tapping foot>
And if he *wins*, and they come to the door wanting a reaction?
Will the victor show?
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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